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The Effects of Spatial Planning on Local Economic Development: How has the Orlando eKhaya Precinct Plan Impacted upon Local Business in Orlando, Soweto?

Ntombela, Siphelelisiwe (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

Post-apartheid transformation is based on focusing on previously neglected areas and improving their economies to eradicate inequality and segregation. Strategic spatial plans tend to focus on a limited number of strategic ...
Exploring the Relevance of Periodic Markets to Neighbourhood Identity

Guya, Maria Jokudu (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

Marketplaces have been a part of societies for centuries and have served as public spaces of trading. While they exist in many different shapes and forms, common to all market places is interaction between traders and ...
Discovering and exploring existing perceptions of densification: The case of Orange Grove and Soweto.

Mfusi, Nkosikhona (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

As the years go by, as the countries and cities continue to urbanise, the population growth of the world increases, and there emerges a growing concern of how to better equip cities to accommodate the rapidly increasing ...
Constructing a joint vision for Johannesburg nature reserves: City Parks and users’ committee engagements in Melville Koppies, Klipriviersberg and Kloofendal nature reserves

Mokgere, Tlholohelo (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

The research is about understanding the partnerships between Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo and nature reserves users’ groups towards the joint management and development of urban nature reserves. It is a comparative study ...
Investigating the usefulness of green dual fuel Metrobuses for Sustainability in Johannesburg, through the 'New beginning for Metrobus' programme.

Brink, Daniel (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

In the face of Climate Change, all cities and their citizens are facing a choice as to how they will use and consume energy. In the variety of energy choices that exist, none are perfectly suited to solving the dynamic and ...
Retail in Johannesburg South: Perceived Impacts of Large Retail Establishments on the Business Performance of Spaza Shop Retailers and Street Traders in Orlando West

Thantsha, Seremi (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

Contemporary second and third space economies are continually experiencing significant growth patterns in economic developments. Initiatives of reconfiguring and rejuvenating previously marginalised and economically deprived ...
Implications for using Shipping Containers to Provide Affordable Housing

Maphumulo, Minenhle (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

Southern African cities are more and more characterised by rapid urbanisation. Urban planners and other spatial practitioners are thus increasingly expected to develop innovative strategies around affordable housing to ...
The value in seeing taxi associations: a lens for a new narrative about the taxi industry in transport planning

Godsell, Abigail Elizabeth (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

This research report develops a case study of the local and long distance Tembisa-Pretoria Taxi Association (TEPTA), in the context of the dearth of specific transport planning research on taxi associations and the shortfalls ...
Private Student Housing in Braamfontein

Ncame, Sikhokele (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

The limited capacity of on-campus university provided student housing has created a niche for the private sector to fill the gap and provide additional housing for students at institutions of higher education and training ...
The Economic Impacts of the Gautrain Station at Rhodesfield

Ndlovu, Edwin (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

The provision of reliable public transport systems in South Africa has been met with a number of requirements in which government wants to explore and utilise to its full potential. Planning is an ever-evolving discipline, ...
The social impacts of the Rea Vaya bus system on the residents of localities affected by the development: The Case of Rea Vaya in Moroka, Soweto

Ubisi, Skhulile (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

The Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 makes provision for community participation – as a tool to uplift/promote democracy at local level – prior to the implementation of large scale municipal development initiatives directly ...
What are the complexities surrounding the provision of social infrastructure in South African metropolitan areas considering the Corridors of Freedom plan?

Ngoma, Ralph (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)

The City of Johannesburg has embarked on corridor-development plan to assist in spatially restructuring the spatially fragmented urban form of Johannesburg, which for a long time has disadvantaged poor inhabitants of city ...
ACCESSING HEALTH SERVICES IN TOWNSHIPS: THE CASE OF BRAM FISCHERVILLE

Gawbeni, Siphosethu (University of the Witwatersrand; Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016)
Commuter Choices and Prospects for Improved Urban Mobility

Mandyanda, Aviwe (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

The purpose of the study is to understand the everyday social and spatial practices that affect transportation choices in the city from the perspective of public transport commuters. My research is a qualitative inquiry ...
Social networks, Migrants and Densification.

Mphatsoe, Pulane (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

The ambiguous nature of cities has long been discussed by many scholars. Cities are both spaces of opportunity and abject poverty; connectivity to global circuits of goods, people and ideas, yet concurrently contain ...
Spatial Re-Configuration of Backyard Dwelling in Bram Fischerville

Selepe, Reitumetse (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

Informal housing such as backyard housing in South Africa is essential as it has manged to absorb the low income group of people who cannot enter the formal market. Backyard housing offers a place where people can access ...
GIS as a decision making tool for development projects in local government: A comparison of category B and C municipalities in Gauteng

Mahlangu, Sabelo (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

GIS has transformed the nature of business and decision making in various industries by providing insight, opportunities to change business outcomes. In planning GIS has provided opportunities for better decision making ...
Female Planners in the Workplace and in Planning Practice

Moraka, Sedimogang (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

“Freedom cannot be achieved unless WOMEN have been emancipated from all forms of oppression. Our endeavours must be about the liberation of the WOMAN, the emancipating of the man and the liberty of the child” (Extract ...
Investigating the sustainability of the Housing Programme of Cornubia, with regards to Sustainable Human Settlements

Bodhi, Kavish (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

After the 1994 elections, housing initiatives, aimed to address the inequalities created within Apartheid, such as racial and socio-economic segregation. This resulted in the 1994 White Paper and 1997 Housing Act which ...
Evaluating the Impacts of the Zola Backyard Upgrading Programme on Landlords and Backyard Dwellers in the Area

Hopa, Lutho (UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 2016)

Backyard rental accommodation is increasingly receiving attention from the state, urban planners and policy makers as one of the solutions to the housing problem in South Africa. The state in their quest to achieving ...

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